Prince 1991 - SOUNDCHECK!!

 If this was the soundcheck heck what was the gig like!?

Somehow you knew this was true and somehow it wouldn’t even matter!

Happy 64th, Kristin Scott Thomas.

Do you know how one of our greatest actors started out? 

Yup, as an extra starring in a Prince video! 

With Prince in Under the Cherry Moon (1986).

Prince - Thank You Falletin Me Be Mice Elf

 Prince [and Larry Graham!] 

I mean exactly HOW funky do you want to actually get?!

TURN IT UP!

So we will end the day with this! :: Prince and Wendy Melvoin ‘Reflection’ on the Tavis Smiley Show

"20 Years Ago Today, Prince and Wendy Melvoin would perform the song Reflection in Hollywood, CA for the Tavis Smiley Show. Reflection is the final track on the album Musicology. The single ‘Reflection' was given to NPG Music Club members and the video of this performance on Tavis Smiley was also sent to NPGMC members” 

Funkatopia

Wow! We miss him . . . . . robbed by the American private health care system that had him on the kind of scale of legal prescription drugs that did for Michael Jackson. INSANE!

This so impressed me and is the most delicate lovely song sung and played beautifully. I don’t know Tavis but assume it is some kind of American talk show type thing and this to sign off is a wondrous coup! Gorgeous!

Prince - Sendai, Japan 1989 | VOODOO WAGON | SILENT WAY

PRINCE - SENDAI JAPAN 1989 | Voodoo Wagon

a massive double high quality live concert from the Gaffer over at HQ (The Wagon to you n me) trawling the nether regions of Guitars101 so you don’t have to!

Prince - Sendai, Japan
February 1, 1989
2 Disc Soundboard [FLAC quality] 


Set List:

1-1        Intro    0:15
1-2        Housequake / Take The A-Train    5:52
1-3        Slow Love    1:12
1-4        Adore    2:02
1-5        Delirious    0:32
1-6        Jack U Off    2:40
1-7        Sister    1:33
1-8        Do Me Baby    3:56
1-9        Adore (End)    0:20
1-10        U Got The Look-Intro / I Wanna Be Your Lover-Intro    0:31
1-11        Head    3:31
1-12        Girls And Boys    1:08
1-13        A Love Bizarre
Featuring [Feat.] – Sheila E.
Featuring [Feat.] – Sheila E.    2:34
1-14        When You Were Mine    3:07
1-15        Little Red Corvette    2:01
1-16        Controversy    0:42
1-17        U Got The Look    1:54
1-18        Superfunkycalifragisexy / Controversy-Outro    1:58
1-19        Bob George    3:41
1-20        Anna Stesia    6:02
1-21        Interlude    4:53
1-22        Eye Know    4:37
1-23        Lovesexy    3:51
1-24        Glam Slam    2:01
1-25        The Cross    5:35
1-26        I Wish U Heaven
Featuring [Feat.] – Sheila E.
Featuring [Feat.] – Sheila E.    2:58
1-27        Kiss    3:30
1-28        Dance On / Drum Solo
Featuring [Feat.] – Sheila E.
Featuring [Feat.] – Sheila E.    4:16
 

 

2-1        Let's Go Crazy    6:13
2-2        When Doves Cry    2:43
2-3        Purple Rain    5:36
2-4        1999    4:01
2-5        Audience    1:34
2-6        Alphabet Street    7:26
        

Lovesexy Tour rehearsal #6, December 1988    
2-7        Rebirth Of The Flesh    4:01
        

Saturday Night Live-15th Anniversary Special, 24 September 1989    
2-8        Electric Chair    4:09
        Rehearsal    
2-9        Electric Chair    0:34
2-10        Electric Chair    0:56
2-11        Electric Chair    4:18
2-12        Electric Chair    4:19
2-13        Electric Chair    4:21
2-14        Electric Chair

Taster . . . (tip: you don’t need one)

Prince - "When You Were Mine" (live Sendai 1989)

Prince - August 3, 1983 Rehearsal for The First Avenue Benefit Concert :: In Aid Of The Minnesota Dance Theater | SILENT WAY | VOODOO WAGON

 Speaking of HQ check this from the Boss there . . . . now we haven’t posted any Prince for a while and this from the text there is really a fascinating item and highly playable too!

Prince Benefit Concert Rehearsal 1983 - VOODOO WAGON

Prince - August 3, 1983 

Rehearsal for The First Avenue Benefit Concert  
In Aid Of The Minnesota Dance Theater 

Liberated Bootleg 

Soundboard @flac

Now whilst the quality issues are well documented in the copious notes here this is a great one to have and enjoy. Super performance and Prince is on FIRE here check the soloing on guitar throughout. 

A truly fascinating artefact from one of greatest ever artists and musicians ever IMHO

 as they say . . . . 

“ If you already have this rehearsal, get this version, grab a set of earphones, turn it up loud and enjoy”

Prince Live - Purple Rain - Minneapolis (USA) 1983

Prince Live! - Play that funky Music White Boy! - Hollywood Swinging - Fantastic Voyage 4/28/11

 Oh you wanted to know more about my guitar heroes . . . . . I was playing this last night.

Worth a share and we are bereft of the legend that was PRINCE

this was the THIRD encore!

“Ain't nothing like a Purple Party” - Prince Houselights are on, but the show isn’t over, this is the third encore!!!!

Inglewood Swinging!

RIP - John Blackwell and Prince Rogers Nelson 💜

The New Adult Bookstore Motel, Records & Liquor: various items from the thrift store, dollar a piece! (Jobe goes shopping)

 I need to get on over to the Library Bar and Grill!

It's next door to the Bookstore and the Motel where you can find allsorts, books, second hand vinyl and refreshments and even crash if you need . . . . . . . . 

You know it!

Motel and Bookstore - Voodoo Wagon

TAJ - Six Days On The Road

 

Taj - Lovin' In My Sweet Baby's Eyes

Richard Thompson - Turning of The Tide

Richard Thompson Beeswing - for Anne Briggs)

 

"Beeswing"

I was nineteen when I came to town, they called it the Summer of Love
They were burning babies, burning flags. The hawks against the doves
I took a job in the steamie down on Cauldrum Street
And I fell in love with a laundry girl who was working next to me

Oh she was a rare thing, fine as a bee's wing
So fine a breath of wind might blow her away
She was a lost child, oh she was running wild
She said "As long as there's no price on love, I'll stay
And you wouldn't want me any other way"

Brown hair zig-zag around her face and a look of half-surprise
Like a fox caught in the headlights, there was animal in her eyes
She said "Young man, oh can't you see I'm not the factory kind
If you don't take me out of here I'll surely lose my mind"

Oh she was a rare thing, fine as a bee's wing
So fine that I might crush her where she lay
She was a lost child, she was running wild
She said "As long as there's no price on love, I'll stay
And you wouldn't want me any other way"

We busked around the market towns and picked fruit down in Kent
And we could tinker lamps and pots and knives wherever we went
And I said that we might settle down, get a few acres dug
Fire burning in the hearth and babies on the rug
She said "Oh man, you foolish man, it surely sounds like hell
You might be lord of half the world, you'll not own me as well"

Oh she was a rare thing, fine as a bee's wing
So fine a breath of wind might blow her away
She was a lost child, oh she was running wild
She said "As long as there's no price on love, I'll stay
And you wouldn't want me any other way"

We was camping down the Gower one time, the work was pretty good
She thought we shouldn't wait for the frost and I thought maybe we should
We was drinking more in those days and tempers reached a pitch
And like a fool I let her run with the rambling itch

Oh the last I heard she's sleeping rough back on the Derby beat
White Horse in her hip pocket and a wolfhound at her feet
And they say she even married once, a man named Romany Brown
But even a gypsy caravan was too much settling down
And they say her flower is faded now, hard weather and hard booze
But maybe that's just the price you pay for the chains you refuse

Oh she was a rare thing, fine as a bee's wing

And I miss her more than ever words could say

If I could just taste all of her wildness now

If I could hold her in my arms today

Well I wouldn't want her any other way

Songwriters: Richard Thompson

One of the finest songs ever written . . . . IMO

 Townes Van Zandt - Tower Song (for my friend Phil) another fine fine song written by a master) Live version

UPDATE: Oh and there's more . . . . . 

with a Taj compilation 'Blue Light Blues' pre-90s selection par excellence with master tracks on it and one of the most breathtaking harmonica solos I have ever heard not from Taj but the extraordinarily gifted John Popper on She Caught the Katy ( a Taj Mahal penned song and there was me thinking it was a blues standard!!)

Awesome dollar a piece bargain buckets abounding!

Taj Mahal and Mississippi Fred McDowell

Taj Mahal - She Caught The Katy live (with band)

and also Jobe found in the bargain bins Pinetop Perkins, Phil Ochs, Traffic's John Barleycorn, Big Bopper, even Prince's Sign of The Times! go on over you know you want to and take something outta the library!

WHILE MY GUITAR GENTLY WEEPS - George Harrison Induction into The Hall of Fame feat. PRINCE

WHILE MY GUITAR GENTLY WEEPS

ROCK 'N' ROLL HALL OF FAME 

INDUCTION OF GEORGE HARRISON 2004

FEAT: TOM PETTY, STEVE WINWOOD, JEFF LYNE, DHANI HARRISON, PRINCE! 

THE DIRECTOR'S CUT

 We still don't know what happened to Prince's guitar! Part of legend and urban myth now but the roadie and stage manager don't know and nobody's saying*see below . . . . . . . . . . (the urban myth is it went upward and just kept right on going . . . . . . nobody saw it land!! ) I love that story and look at how much fun Dhani is having when Prince takes the spot . . . . . . . . . . . 

*Point of info: as Bob Paxton notes on YouTube's comments: "Prince's guitar here was an H.S. Anderson MadCat, a fairly rare Hohner '70s Telecaster knockoff, with Kinman pickups. At the end, it was caught by his guitar tech Takumi Suetsugu -- that throw-off being a common thing he did in concert"

KATE RUSBY & family!

MANIC MONDAY

by Prince

Kate said at the time:
Here is our brand new track ‘MANIC MONDAY’ 🥂🎊😁
We are recording a covers album, called ‘HAND ME DOWN’. Due to lock down we decided to release the tracks digitally as we go along. (Cd and vinyl to follow later in the year) Songs I love, songs to cheer, to reminisce, to sing along, but mainly to create smiles. 😊☀️❤️

Available ⭐️NOW⭐️ on all digital platforms, go see if you can find it. 👀😃✨🌈

Ps Our girls have been coming to studio too of course, as they have to, so they sing on this too, they are my Bangles, I’m one proud mum. ❤️ Hope you like it👍🎉😁😃😊🌈❤️😆


Then Susanna Hoffs tweeted about it and Kate went all star struck! ( ha ha ha so funny)


OH MY ACTUAL GOODNESS ME!!! Susanna Hoffs, lead singer of The Bangles, has messaged to say she likes our version of The Bangles’ Manic Monday 🎊🥂🎊❤️✨ it’s made my day, month, year, and made me very emotional, there are tears!!
What a lovely, generous lady!! I am jumping, around in a pretty uncool fashion!!🤫
If only I could pop back in time and tell my 13 year old self 😊☀️
Well thank you fabulous Susanna Hoffs for your kind words🙏 🌈 — feeling hyper.

I love that she got so overwhelmed and excited that Susanna Hoffs would message her and she turns into a little girl fan! She is such a GIRL! We love her, we love them, Damien too!

then the BBC began playing it on the play lists and she and the girls wanted to announce the fact and I play this if I ever need cheering up . . . . being in lock down and not allowed to hug my granddaughter or new grandson I play it quite a bit . . . . . . . . . .so lovely and so, so funny!

PRINCE

Probably the only time I went out and purchased a Prince album (does the 'Black' album count I guess it does. . . . ) but '1999' I really paid attention to after feeling that I didn't quite 'get' him. As a guitarist I felt he hid is light under a bushel as t'were (!?) but once it was out of the bag I really enjoyed this  . . . . . TURN IT UP and dance around in your pants!

On this day in music history: October 27, 1982 - “1999”, the fifth album by Prince is released. Produced by Prince, it is recorded at Kiowa Trail Home Studio in Chanhassen, MN and Sunset Sound Recorders in Hollywood, CA from January - August 1982. Even before the tour for his fourth album “Controversy” wraps, Prince’s restless creativity sends him back into the studio in January of 1982. More ambitious than ever, the musician looks to push the boundaries of what he has done previously, but also reach a wider audience without any artistic compromise. Ironically enough, the first song recorded for the new album is the one that will be its closing track (“International Lover”), and its opening track (“1999”) is the last one completed. By the time recording wraps, Prince realizes he has more material than can fit on a single LP. When he suggests to his label Warner Bros. that he wants the album to be a two LP set, they are initially hesitant. A compromise is reached, releasing it as Prince intends, but issuing it with a lower $10.98 list price, rather than normal list price of $13.98 or $14.98 for a two album set. “1999” is the first to be credited to “Prince And The Revolution” (the latter written in reverse on the front cover), is his breakthrough to a wide mainstream audience. It spins off four singles including “Little Red Corvette” (#6 Pop, #15 R&B), “Delirious” (#8 Pop, #18 R&B) and the title track (#1 Dance, #4 R&B, initially peaked at #44, re-charted in 1983 peaked at #12 Pop). Prince supports the project with the now legendary “Triple Threat Tour” featuring The Time and Vanity 6 as the opening acts. “1999” spends over three years on the pop album charts and nearly two years on the R&B chart, including almost three consecutive months in the top ten on the pop chart, and over eight months in the R&B album top ten. Prince also receives his first Grammy nominations for Best R&B Vocal Performance (“International Lover”) and Best Pop Vocal Performance, Male (“1999”) in 1984 (losing to Michael Jackson’s “Billie Jean” and “Thriller”). When the album is first released on CD, it omits the track “DMSR” since it would breach the seventy minute time limit placed on a single disc at the time. The track is restored to the album in 1992 when the CD is reissued. “1999” is inducted into the Grammy Hall Of Fame in 2008, making it Prince’s first album to receive that acknowledgement. The album is reissued on vinyl in 2011 by Warner Bros’ Rhino Records reissue division, replicating all of the original cover artwork, inner sleeves and the custom “eye” labels used on the original pressings. After Prince’s untimely passing in April of 2016, “1999” re-enters the Billboard Top 200, peaking at number seven, surpassing its original chart peak of number nine on May 28, 1983. “1999” peaks at number four on the Billboard R&B album chart, number seven on the Top 200, and is certified 4x Platinum in the US by the RIAA.

thanks to Jeff Harris' wonderful blog

Perhaps my favourite Prince song . . .this is a work of genius and the more I listen to it the more I hear in the arrangement. It is astonishing and at first the brain processes this is a mere pop song but listen to what is going on in the back ground and it will blow your socks off! We miss him! Extraordinary man and force of nature . . . . . . 

On this day in music history: April 22, 1985 - “Around The World In A Day”, the seventh studio album by Prince is released. Produced by Prince, it is recorded at the Flying Cloud Warehouse in Eden Prairie, MN, Mobile Audio Studio, St. Paul, MN, Sunset Sound and Capitol Studios in Hollywood, CA from January - December 1984. The second album credited to Prince & The Revolution, it is issued only ten months after “Purple Rain”. Though Warner Bros wants Prince to continue to tour in support of his hugely successful album, to maximize its sales worldwide, Prince has other ideas. Bored with touring, the musician insists that his next album be released as soon as the last single from the previous album falls from the charts. The new album is the first in a number of musical departures that Prince takes in his career. Much of the albums first half has a distinctively psychedelic influence, with the rest being balanced out with funk, pop and gospel sounds. Initially it is released with minimal publicity and without a single until nearly a month later. Prince suggests that “Paisley Park” be the first single (which is released in the UK), but with US radio already giving “Raspberry Beret” heavy airplay as an LP cut, Warner Bros in the US insists that it be issued instead. The album receives favorable reviews, and a positive reaction from fans. It spins off three singles including “Raspberry Beret” (#2 Pop) and “Pop Life” (#7 Pop). The initial CD packaging of the album comes in a three panel cardboard long box that unfolds (showing the song lyrics, like the LP’s inner gatefold) with the actual CD inside of a mini cardboard sleeve (of the album cover artwork), inserted into a slot inside the longbox. This packaging is discontinued after the initial press run, and the CD comes in a regular jewel case on subsequent re-pressings. Out of print on vinyl since 1989, it is remastered and reissued in September of 2016, replicating the original LP packaging and the “Balloon Boy” hype sticker.  “Around The World In A Day” spends three weeks at number one on the Billboard Top 200, and is certified 3x Platinum in the US by the RIAA.

Just because . . . . . . .fonky!

I miss Prince and don't own much but if ever there was someone for whom the term 'genius' was appropriate, it is him! Loved his guitar playing and hot tamale this is funky! Enjoying this on a warm sunny day here not least because of the vid!

It will go down in histrpoy as a sad end to a wonderful musician and I am angry he turned out to be all too human as he seemed above the causes of his death. America you need to do something about your health service and as we are about to lose ours it is timely to recall what meds Prince was on and why when he passed away. Nothing illegal here but the sheer volume of medication and I will say it again and again is simply murderous!

On this day in music history: April 20, 2004 - “Musicology”, the thirtieth album by Prince is released. Produced by Prince, it is recorded at Paisley Park in Chanhassen, MN, Metal Works in Mississauga, Ontario, and The Hit Factory in New York City in Mid - Late 2003. After experimenting with distributing his music through his own NPG Music Club website, Prince decides to realign himself with the more traditional form of issuing his work. Released in cooperation with Sony Music’s Columbia Records, it is the artists’ first major label release in over five years. The album also features guest appearances from musicians such as Candy Dulfer, Maceo Parker, Sheila E. and Stokley Williams of Mint Condition. Part of its commercial success is due to the unique method of selling it by including a copy of the CD along with the price of a concert ticket, during the “Musicology Tour”. It spins off two singles (three in the UK) including “Call My Name” (#75 Pop) and the title track (#3 R&B). It wins two Grammy Awards including Best Traditional R&B Vocal Performance for the title track and Best Male R&B Vocal Performance for the single “Call My Name” in 2005. “Musicology” peaks at number three on the Billboard Top 200 and R&B album charts, and is certified 2x Platinum in the US by the RIAA.

On this day in music history: October 27, 1982 - “1999”, the fifth album by Prince is released. Produced by Prince, it is recorded at Kiowa Trail Home Studio in Chanhassen, MN and Sunset Sound Recorders in Hollywood, CA from January - August 1982. Even before the tour for his fourth album “Controversy” wraps, Prince’s restless creativity sends him back into the studio in January of 1982. More ambitious than ever, the musician looks to push the boundaries of what he has done previously, but also reach a wider audience without any artistic compromise. Ironically enough, the first song recorded for the new album is the one that will be its closing track (“International Lover”), and its opening track (“1999”) is the last one completed. By the time recording wraps, Prince realizes he has more material than can fit on a single LP. When he suggests to his label Warner Bros. that he wants the album to be a two LP set, they are initially hesitant. A compromise is reached, releasing it as Prince intends, but issuing it with a lower $10.98 list price, rather than normal list price of $13.98 or $14.98 for a two album set. “1999” is the first to be credited to “Prince And The Revolution” (the latter written in reverse on the front cover), is his breakthrough to a wide mainstream audience. It spins off four singles including “Little Red Corvette” (#6 Pop, #15 R&B), “Delirious” (#8 Pop, #18 R&B) and the title track (#1 Dance, #4 R&B, initially peaked at #44, re-charted in 1983 peaked at #12 Pop). Prince supports the project with the now legendary “Triple Threat Tour” featuring The Time and Vanity 6 as the opening acts. “1999” spends over three years on the pop album charts and nearly two years on the R&B chart, including almost three consecutive months in the top ten on the pop chart, and several more in the R&B album top ten. Prince also receives his first Grammy nominations for Best R&B Vocal Performance (“International Lover”) and Best Pop Vocal Performance, Male (“1999”) in 1984 (losing to Michael Jackson’s “Billie Jean” and “Thriller”). When the album is first released on CD, it omits the track “DMSR” since it would breach the seventy minute time limit placed on a single disc at the time. The track is restored to the album in 1992 when the CD is reissued. “1999” is inducted into the Grammy Hall Of Fame in 2008, making it Prince’s first album to receive that acknowledgement. The album is reissued on vinyl in 2011 by Warner Bros’ Rhino Records reissue division, replicating all of the original cover artwork, inner sleeves and the custom “eye” labels used on the original pressings. After Prince’s untimely passing in April of 2016, “1999” re-enters the Billboard Top 200, peaking at number seven, surpassing its original chart peak of number nine on May 28, 1983. “1999” peaks at number four on the Billboard R&B album chart, number seven on the Top 200, and is certified 4x Platinum in the US by the RIAA.

and despite all the brouhaha since his tragic death from yet more over prescribed legal medication opioids and such, we can still sit back and boogie to this amongst my favourite top three Prince songs, check the lyrics and wonder. The man was a genius! Guitarist and songwriter par excellence!

thanks to the most excellent Jeff Harris' blog 'Behind The Grooves  On this day in Music History

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Andy says:

Raspberry Beret - Prince

R.I.P. PRINCE

[Prince Rogers Nelson (June 7, 1958 – April 21, 2016)]

Many of us who read the announcement last week that Prince had been admitted to hospital after some kind of medical crisis may well have been concerned and not a little confused. Reflected a fleeting thought that he could not have succumbed to something as prosaic as flu!? Surely not? This was PRINCE! The man who didn't believe in time! Surely he was otherworldly enough to not be from this planet and suffer from exhaustion or head colds. His workaholic level commitment to pursuing his talent may just have caused pause for thought. 

Many fans in the past may have wondered at his supposed legendary ability to go without sleep at the height of his creative output. He seemed nothing if not superhuman, a creature beyond us mere mortals at once superfit and handsome if not beautiful, metrosexual somehow displaying refined aspects of both genders, attractive to both sexes but also possessed of immense talent and a somehow tireless non-stop outpouring. If he wasn't playing guitar he was writing concept albums, at once naughty and bold, funky and power pop driven to producing the work of others from allegedly saving the music histories of artists from our past like Mavis Staples to modern day Fonk-masters like George Clinton. Well yesterday it all came to a sudden and all too real stop and we found him mortal after all. 

'Prince' is dead at 57

There has been a flurry of bootleg reminders out there on the net immediately and Prince was a always cool with that. So long as you didn't sell them. I have the bootleg ‘BLACK’ album somewhere here but can’t locate it at the moment it is extraordinary and weird as weird can be . . . it is filthy!!! . . . . . he is like Frank Zappa . . . with HITS! Hendrix inherited talent with pop sensibilities that Jackson would have and did envy

Big O has listed some fine fine boots already two new and two from their back catalogue

 Good stuff check out the weirdness about Miles Davis too . . . . . . . 

Early classic boots 1988 this set the bar!

Small Club 

http://bigozine2.com/roio/?p=2859

Crucial - with Miles Davis 

http://bigozine2.com/roio/?p=2860

Baltimore 2015

http://bigozine2.com/roio/?p=2386

All the hits and more - great quality! If nothing else get this one . . . . . . .

Louisville 2015

http://bigozine2.com/roio/?p=2346

Big O goes on to say

+ + + + +
PRINCE R.I.P. 1958-2016Prince, the songwriter, singer, producer, one-man studio band and consummate showman, died on April 21, 2016 at his residence, Paisley Park, in Chanhassen, Minn, according to a statement from his publicist, Yvette Noel-Schure. He was 57. No cause of death has been given. In a statement, the Carver County sheriff, Jim Olson, said that deputies responded to an emergency call at 9:43 am: “When deputies and medical personnel arrived, they found an unresponsive adult male in the elevator. First responders attempted to provide lifesaving CPR, but were unable to revive the victim. He was pronounced deceased at 10:07 am.” The sheriff’s office said it would continue to investigate his death.
Last week, responding to news reports that Prince’s plane had made an emergency landing because of a health scare, Ms. Noel-Schure said Prince was “fighting the flu.” Prince, born Prince Rogers Nelson on June 7, 1958, was a man bursting with music - a wildly prolific songwriter, a virtuoso on guitars, keyboards and drums and a master architect of funk, rock, R&B and pop, even as his music defied genres. In a career that lasted from the late 1970s until an arena tour this year, he was acclaimed as a sex symbol, a musical prodigy and an artist who shaped his career his way, often battling with accepted music-business practices. Prince’s Top 10 hits included “Little Red Corvette,” “When Doves Cry,” “Let’s Go Crazy,” “Kiss,” and “The Most Beautiful Girl in the World”; albums like “Dirty Mind,” “1999” and “Sign O’ the Times” were full-length statements. “Purple Rain” (1984) also won him an Academy Award. - The New York Times